11 - Batteries and Power Systems

Electron Activity in Chemical Reactions

Electron Activity in Chemical Reactions

So far in our discussions on electricity and electric circuits, we have not discussed in any detail how batteries function.…

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Battery Construction

The word battery simply means a group of similar components. In military vocabulary, a ”battery” refers to a cluster of…

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Battery Ratings

Because batteries create electron flow in a circuit by exchanging electrons in ionic chemical reactions, and there is a limited…

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Special Purpose Batteries

Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement technology, a special type of battery known as a…

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Practical Considerations of Batteries

When connecting batteries together to form larger ”banks” (a battery of batteries?), the constituent batteries must be matched to each…

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